7.5

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Poured up at AZ Strong Beer Fest 2017 where it exhibits a clear deep copper body that has amber hues and supports a tall fluffy tan head of foam. The aroma offers up malts, a dash of roasted malts, some spicy wood leading to kind of a bourbon booziness. The taste delivers some sweetness but then quickly gets into firm spicy oak notes. Then to midway boozy bourbon takes over and it seems to lack that smoothness some bourbon aged beers can have. This is still a pretty tasty sipper. After a few more ounces a light sense of sweet dark fruity esters start to become apparent and this helps create a little more balance and softness up next to the more rugged booziness.